Geoff Hayward (Associate Director of SKOPE), Hubert Ertl and Michael Hölscher (both SKOPE Research Associates) presented a symposium on ‘Degrees of Success: an investigation of the transition from vocational to higher education’. Based on their recently completed Teaching and Learning Research Programme project the symposium investigated whether growing participation in VET has resulted in increasing participation and successful progression of people with a vocational background into HE. Two papers reported on the research process and on the findings of this project undertaken at Oxford University, Department of Education. The third paper drew the findings together and discussed them in the light of the widening participation in HE agenda in the UK. Copies of papers/presentations are available from geoff.hayward@education.ox.ac.uk.
